Reconfiguring the Primavera: Battistina Appiano as patron.(Critical essay)

From: Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

The Primavera (Fig. 1) is one of the few surviving secular paintings from the Renaissance era for which we have no documented patron. Its iconography has frequently been analyzed in the hope that it may provide a possible link to the patron. Diverse interpretations have ranged from a calendric explanation to a lesson in Neoplatonic philosophy. (1)

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Scholars have assumed that the Primavera was commissioned by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici because Vasari first noted the painting, in a Medici villa previously owned by Lorenzo and his brother ...

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